[Sysadmin] Browser archive contributions

[Brian Wilson]

[I'll try top-posting to keep the reply succinct. :) ]

Hi William,

A dropbox transfer area would be great. As you may have noticed from a 
previous message, I did end up cross-referencing my list with evolt's 
list (the unsorted page listings on evolt made that harder - that might 
be a small useful tweak for the site). It did take a couple hours, but 
it wasn't as difficult as I originally expected. The judgment column of 
"does evolt have it already, or not" was based almost entirely on file 
name, so take that for what it's worth. It looked like you have about 
half of the payloads I have, but when in doubt (in this case) 
over-sharing is probably best. :) You can still refer to my checklist 
when you are doing any verification.

Concentrating on released browsers was a solid decision, but (at this 
point) I think assisting in browser archaeology can be nothing but good. 
Think about all the "browser researchers" that will thank us in the 
future! ;)

Thanks very much for interest and all the time taken for replies from 
all involved so far,
-Brian


On 5/24/18 11:23 PM, William Anderson wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> I managed to miss your email address on my reply, please see below!
>
> William
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:09 PM William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 3:24 PM Brian Wilson <retail at blooberry.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Dean,
>>> I don't have links to the browsers, I have a pile of CDs. :)
>> Hi Brian,
>> A pile of CDs sounds ... not very downloadable ;) If we gave you a Dropbox
>> link, would you be willing to uploadify the CDs?
>>> I realized after I originally sent this that the only proper response if
>>> you expressed interest was to give you a list of all the versions I
>>> have. That took me a couple days to gather:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pBxYFifmpPgjVwxypR5cDDemI6ieQIKS3wez8iwSKpk/edit?usp=sharing
>
>> Don't worry about any further cross-referencing, what you've done so far
> is
>> awesome.  There's no rush.  Enjoy your weekend instead!
>>> I figure we can determine what subset of the browsers I have that are
>>> interesting and we can work from there how best to get them to you.
>> I'm interested in them all. As mentioned, we could give you a Dropbox
> link,
>> does that sound useful? A CD into individual folders?
>>> PS: after some brief browsing, it looks like evolt either does not focus
>>> on pre-release versions, or just doesn't have very many of them. That
>>> was something I covered in depth on my site, which is why I have so many
>>> of them for IE, Mosaic, Netscape and Opera (the browsers I covered).
>> I think Adrian (who first started the Browser Archive) was concentrating
> on
>> production releases, as that's what web developers would want to test with
>> to ensure visitors experiences would match up with what the site owner
>> wanted.  Nowadays it's more about archaeology, so the more the merrier.
>> Let me know if you want to upload to Dropbox and I'll get a link organised
>> for ya.
>> -n